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REPUBLIC FINAL CITY A2. The Arizona Republic Tuesday, March 23, 1982 (Death in the morning: the brutal side of collegiate competition hey are called competitive sports. The athletes who participate are idolized. The men who "S4-f Iff Tom Fitzpatrick practices and watched the team. The players still called him.

He would sit at home with Paulette and discuss the firing. "Maybe if I didn't shave my mustache I wouldn't have been fired," he said one day. Another time he told Paulette that maybe he had been fired because they were living together and weren't married. Still another time, he looked up at Paulette and asked, "Do you think my players complained about me?" The night before Pincus died, he sat up talking to Paulette. "For more than two years, Marty had been trying to find out why he had been on the top of the world one day and then suddenly he wasn't on top anymore," Paulette said.

Her eyes turned cloudy. Her lips quivered. But she never broke. "Marty told me that I was getting boring," she said. "I told him that I wanted him to go away, that he wasn't doing himself any good by hanging around.

and gave it to Paulette. He sat in the living room and read the sports section. Then he walked out to his car and sat down against the wheel. He had the .357 in his hand. And then he killed himself.

There were tears in Paulette's eyes now as she talked about those final minutes. "People might not understand this," she said, "but I'm very angry with Marty. Suicide is very selfish. You can love somebody very much and still be angry. Here I'm left with all this love for Marty, and he went away and left me." Paulette fought back the tears.

She did not want to cry. There was something she truly wanted to say. "I suppose it's like you were a big TV star," she said. "You walk down the street, and you have all that attention. But when they take it away from you, it's difficult to survive." Wednesday: The self-imposed pressure that killed Willie Williams.

"A little later, Marty woke me up again. It must have been 4 in the morning. He told me that he wanted to apologize. He told me that it wasn't me that was boring but him. "He told me that I should have known the real Marty Pincus.

I should have known him when he was on top, coaching a winning ASU team." The morning before this conversation took place, Pincus had purchased a Magnum revolver. It was sitting in the trunk of his car, just' outside the Tempe home in which he and Paulette were having their last talk. Shortly before dawn, Pincus spoke to Paulette again. "Kitten," he said, "I've never accepted losing that job. I don't know what to say to people when they stop me on the street and ask me what I'm doing.

"People expect big things from me. It's embarrassing not to be able to give them something big. It's embarrassing not to be successful." Shortly before 7 a.m., Pincus got out of bed. He made a cup of coffee Marty Pincus 25 COLORS TO CHOOSE FROM 0 RAINBOW often acquire almost godlike stature. there is a darker side to the pressures of big-time collegiate athletics.

The Pac-10 conference in which 'Arizona State and the University of 'Arizona now participate is one of the most highly competitive in the the truly talented can survive. Coaches must dedicate their lives to their teams to the exclusion of all else. Family and friends come second. The success of the team is everything. And when they lose? Well it's unthinkable.

Men who pursue the game with this degree of intensity are even willing to kill themselves when things go wrong. Marty Pincus, the former tennis coach at Arizona State University, shot himself to death on Jan. 5. He was 41. Willie Williams, track coach at the University of Arizona, shot himself to death on Jan.

14. He, too, was 41. CWhydid two healthy and talented men, commit suicide in the prime of Uettjives? I thought Paulette Bolyard might have part of the answer. She lived with Marty Pincus for the last four years of his life. They planned to get married.

But then Pincus was fired, unexpectedly, from his job at Arizona State. Marty Pincus has been gone from Paulette's life more than three months now. But he's still all around her. Paulette still has hundreds of pictures of the former ASU coach posing with athletic greats like Bjorn Borg, Reggie Jackson, Frank Kush and Billy Jean King. -There is not one photograph in which Pincus, tall and mustachioed, is not smiling.

Paulette sat in the alcove off her kitchen sorting out her memories. She has short blond hair. She is very trim. She began by telling of the day in the spring of 1979 that Pincus had come home early from school. "This is something you've got to understand about Marty.

He was over at ASU 12 hours every day," Paulette said. "Now he comes home this day and he slumps down on the couch. he says, i just got It was the closest I've ever seen Marty come to crying. You're "I said. he said.

'They told me I ss mil nn. runtx CLOCKS was through, and they wouldn't tell me why. They just said they could find a better That night, Pincus sat down and worked for hours preparing a three-page typewritten letter to Dr. Fred Miller, then the ASU athletic director. "Maybe I can convince him to take me back," Pincus said.

In the letter, he promised Miller that if he was hired back, he would ensure that Arizona State would win the Pac-10 tennis title the next season or he would resign. Earlier, he had confided to Paulette that the Pac-10 was such a difficult conference that ASU would have to hire professionals to keep up with the other schools. In seven years as coach, he had produced the best won-lost record of any Sun Devil coach. Pincus-coached ASU tennis teams won 164 matches and lost 31. He won three Western Athletic Conference championships.

But the Pac-10 was tougher than the WAC. In his only season in the Pac-10, Pincus won two matches and lost eight inconference competition, although he upset the favored University of Southern California. Pincus took the letter to Miller the following Monday. But he was not hired back. Pincus never was able to accept the fact that he had been fired as the tennis coach of Arizona State.

He kept hoping against hope that by some miracle the authorities at ASU would rehire him. What you have to understand about Pincus is that he loved Arizona State University and everything about it. He wore maroon and gold jackets with ASU emblems on them. He wore jackets with tennis-racket emblems sewn into them. He drove around in a VW bus with the school colors and a proclaiming the ASU tennis team on the side.

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